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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Plan "B"

Rejecting Despair and Confronting the Challenges

I will not add to the flow of articles that have more than adequately
analyzed the horrendous long-term consequences of US President Barack
Obama’s capitulation to the Iranian ayatollah, who to this day
explicitly identifies the destruction of Israel as a primary objective
and endorses calls of death to America and Israel by his followers.

Iran is an Islamic global counterpart to
Hitler’s dictatorship in its fiendish denial of human rights. Yet the
U.S. is effectively rewarding and reinforcing the leading global
promoter of terrorism for its ongoing commitment and fanatic
determination to undermine the democratic world. Beyond transforming
Iran into a threshold nuclear state, Obama has provided Tehran with $150
billion to intensify its global terrorist activities, in addition to
the removal of embargoes of conventional arms and ballistic missiles,
thus bringing European and North American cities into the range of
Iranian missiles.

It has repeatedly been described as “the
worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history” and will be recorded as an
act of infamy that not merely threatens the survival of Israel and the
moderate Arab regimes in the region but capitulates to a fanatic Islamic
terrorist state, some of whose leaders would be willing to facilitate a
premature paradise for its citizens by engaging in suicidal initiatives
in order to bring forward the “end of days.”

The U.S. has demeaned itself as a world
power and lost the confidence of its traditional friends who have
witnessed Obama’s lies, his repudiation of crucial assurances initially
made in relation to Iran and his betrayal and abandonment of
longstanding allies while groveling to rogue states and dictatorships.

To his credit, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu performed an invaluable service over the past decade by
singlehandedly fighting valiantly to prevent what would have been an
automatic global acceptance of Iran as a full-fledged nuclear power.
Without Netanyahu’s efforts, the sanctions would never have been
imposed. Indeed, the civilized world was close to forcing the Iranians
to back down — had it not been for Obama’s inexplicable obsession to
engage with the ayatollahs.

We must now strategize a new approach.
In the short-term, our efforts must be directed toward convincing
Congress and the American people of the diabolical global consequences
if this agreement is consummated.

The prospects of reversing, or at least
introducing additional control or supervisory mechanisms instead of
blindly trusting the duplicitous Iranians, are not good. However, we
must do all possible to persuade Congress to reject the deal, and if
necessary achieve a two-thirds majority vote in the House of
Representatives and the Senate in order to override the president’s
veto. That would require a substantial number of Democrats to join the
majority Republicans in opposing their president and places special
pressure on the 28 Jewish legislators, especially Senator Chuck Schumer
who represents a major Jewish constituency but also seeks to become the
Senate Democratic leader.

Such action necessitates Israeli
politicians to urgently set aside their narrow politics and speak out
with one voice in order to neutralize claims that it is only right-wing
elements in Israeli society that oppose the Iranian deal.

To his credit, Labor Party leader Isaac
Herzog has already fully endorsed Netanyahu’s efforts in opposing the
current deal. He has bitterly condemned the agreement and stated that he
would visit the U.S. and warn the Americans that, if consummated, it
“will unleash a lion from the cage” and enable an “empire of hate and
evil” to undermine Israel’s security as well as global stability.

More than ever, the time is now
opportune for Herzog to override the radicals is his own camp and join a
unity government. Were he to assume the role of foreign minister,
Israel would be speaking with one voice which would make an enormous
impact on global public opinion. Rumors suggest that negotiations are
taking place to bring this about, which would be welcomed by the
overwhelming majority of Israeli citizens.

Israel’s challenge is to persuade
congressional Democrats to stand up and if necessary repudiate their own
president, not merely because he is endangering Israel but because he
is undermining the standing and security of the United States and paving
the way for the emergence of an evil global power that could unleash a
blight on mankind for future generations.

The relatively feeble response to date
by the traditionally robust American Jewish leadershiphas been a
significant factor in failing to inhibit Obama from implementing
anti-Israeli policies — at total variance with the inclinations of the
majority of Americans and their congressional leaders.

Belatedly, there is now some movement.
Howard Kohr, executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, has launched a major campaign to persuade Congress to reject
the deal. Malcolm Hoenlein expressed his personal opposition when he
recently visited Israel with the newly elected head of the President’s
Conference. But that umbrella body, operating by consensus, has yet to
make a clear-cut condemnatory statement.

To his credit, Abe Foxman of the
Anti-Defamation League, in what was possibly his last major public
statement prior to his retirement, outrightly condemned the Obama
administration.

Many smaller organizations led by the
Zionist Organization of America have bitterly protested against Obama’s
betrayal but most American groups responded in a tepid manner, even
after Herzog forthrightly condemned the deal.

The American Jewish Committee headed by
David Harris expressed concern but avoided calling on members to lobby
Congress to veto the deal.

To their shame, the leadership bodies of
the Conservative and Reform movements responded with deafening silence,
at best, but many of their “progressive” rabbis are actively supporting
Obama.

Needless to say, J Street, the “pro-Israel, pro-peace”
organization, boasts that it is spending millions of dollars to lobby
Congress to support the bill.

Unless AIPAC succeeds in reversing these
trends, the likelihood of convincing sufficient Democratic congressmen
and senators to form a two thirds majority to veto Obama’s deal is slim.
Obama’s despicable decision to bypass Congress and have the deal
ratified by the United Nations Security Council before the 60-day review
period has led to bipartisan outrage from legislators, with Senator Bob
Corker describing the act as “an affront to the American people … an
affront to Congress and the House of Representatives.” Pursuing such a
provocative path suggests that Obama still has concerns about the
response of Congress.

This will be a tough battle but we must
resist defeatism. We must remind ourselves that even if this
catastrophic agreement is consummated, we are not a powerless nation.
The majority of Iranians are not all deranged Islamists seeking an early
paradise and will be deterred by the knowledge that we have the
capacity to wipe them off the face of the earth should they, God forbid,
ever employ nuclear weapons against us.

In the past, Israel’s impressive
ingenuity succeeded in thwarting threatening challenges. The Israeli
citizen is not privy to all strategy but we should remain confident and
assured that the government is currently formulatingPlan B — a tactic
that will continue to safeguard the security of the Jewish nation, even
should this catastrophic deal be consummated.

We should also be relieved that Obama’s
term of office expires in less than 18 months and hopefully he will soon
become a lame-duck president. Of course, during that time he may
attempt to introduce further harmful policies which could create serious
difficulties for us. But we must remain optimistic: Whoever replaces
him will hopefully be a major improvement and may seek to quickly
initiate measures to prevent the mullahs from broadening the scope of
their global terrorist campaigns, restore equilibrium in the region and
regain the confidence of the United States’ traditional allies,
including Israel.

In the meantime, Israel should unite and
remain confident in our ability to deter our enemies, defend ourselves
and overcome challenges in the future as we have in the past.

This column was originally published in the Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom

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